Best Monarchs Poems

Monarchs be gone. I have blue butterflies now.
They listen to my heart and deliver before I ask.
They mirror my feelings and my thoughts
Improving my attitude at every turn
I am not smug, merely reflecting facts
As they appear to me in blue butterfly forms
Monarchs, you may visit...

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Mirror Images
Like a hued cacoon ablaze,
Foreshadowing life....

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With trusting innocence we've played
with nets and jars amid a field
of muted rustling blooms that yield
Their subtle breaths of perfumed air
where milkweed monarch’s foraged there.
They were the prize and preference
of youth and trusting innocence.
Inexpertness with nets gave flight
elusiveness till next alight
on efflorescence’s afield
Sedulity kept our...

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drowsy cricket songs
call orange-black wings to rest
on yellow ragweed

hunting with broomsticks
bent coat hangers and cheesecloth
we chase summer dreams...

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Deer  me ...

Head  bangers

Stuck  in  a  rut  ....

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Each year I plant an herbal garden 
very near a stand of mulberry trees
and every Spring when they're in bloom
they attract butterflies and honey bees.

This morning, as I tended the sweet basil,
a young Monarch landed close to my hand.
Then, a cloud of them swirled around...

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Their fragile wings must take them many miles
To the southern breeding grounds
The beautiful monarchs...

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Who can capture you
With a glass jar held face down
While your wings flutter wildly
And your hope dwindles
I watched somwhere afar off
Please let my butterfly fly...

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I thought the landscape burst in sudden flame
with embers wild cavorting in the glare
of dawning sun, but boundless sparks became
a throng of monarchs flitting through the air.

Arbitrium Divisa 5
Gregory R Barden 
12/18/19

Original Poem:  Pixie Dragons
9/18/19...

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THE MONARCHS ENGAGED US

The monarchs engage us. We amazed them. We’ ‘the colorful butterfly people'' saw silent fluttering hovering overhead, their duty to the flowers n trees was now shared with us, eight colorful and vibrantly intoxicated them with our passion fruit. We amazed them,...

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Tomorrow's your birthday
And I couldn't think of anything to give and say,
'Til I saw two butterlies flying
And now I kow exactly what to give.
Today's the special day
And I would like to surprise you, if you may,
100 monarchs for you and a diamond ring,
Symbols of my...

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monarchs 
enjoying a morning meal
milkweed leaves

...

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If 
number 
is the ruler
of form

Then
beauty 
the true empress
of love

(To Pythagoras: March, 2021)...

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It isn’t the big celebrations,
Enormous dinners or huge gifts.
Parties never rouse foundations,
Jamborees or festivals.
It isn’t the life-sized creations,
Who impress kings, rulers or monarchs.

It’s the little things, a gentle expression,
When hearts meet in the deserts,
When dreamers discover their profession,
When simple reaches into the heart,
Pulls out a...

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It had been years since the seasons changed

Then the Monarch butterflies
Shook from a blue sky in July
Like a box of colored confetti
Re-appeared a miracle atop the sticky meadows

And the day before was so hot
That on my morning walk
I found tree frogs glued to the pavement

In...

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